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Re: Kickoff Procedure?
We all meet at the school and then we split into 2 teams.
Team 1, about 3 people, goes to the kickoff in Manchester (only about an hour away). Armed with a digital camera and a tape measure, their job is to look for the little things that weren't highlighted that may be an issue as well as pick up the KoP.
Team 2 will watch the kickoff on the web and then we will break into sub teams and come up with 2-4 strategies (not designs). These teams will prioritize the goals and set strategy only.
When team 1 returns to the school we'll have a pot luck luncheon/dinner and present each of the different strategies (no decision will be made at this point as we want the students to mull over each of the different ideas). Before we leave, we will inventory the KoP and make a list of missing parts to be sent to FIRST on Monday.
Within 2-3 days full scale mock-up models of robots that would perform their strategies are created out of cardboard. By the 1st Wednesday we will vote on the strategy we want.
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"We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. "- Tennyson, Ulysses
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